The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-06
LIVE Stock NOTES.

Pick out your breed ers, saws the Farm Jour-
nal the pigs with long bodies, broad backs
and deep, round hams. Select breed
which has hair on it. a good coat of hair
counts on a hog as well as any animal. 1t
is protection in summer and in winter
The Jersey Bulletin folks are still ex-
planning the dairy-show outcome. The
best thing to do with fact is to let it
stand. Of course the fight is not over in
one round. Next round the Jersey may
win; certainly next time the Holstein will
not have a walk.over.
Experiments show than when cut hay
and ground grain are fed to stock the cost
of feeding is lessened sufficiently to pay
FOR the labor necessary to prepare the food
snd grind the grain, and that the increased
growth of the stock is noticeable when
compared with those fed upon whole grain
and u2cut hay.
Hark Comstock thinks that the Jersey
interests "is at present depressed by the
feeling that circumstances have placed the
mass of breeders at a disadvantage which
they are in doubt whether they can over.
come" There is almost nothing in this
the present cattle depression Is common to
all the breeds OF cattle.
Many weeds may be used proftsbly as
food for hogs. The parrow-leaved plant
ain possesses nearly the same nutritive
value IS timothy, while LAMBS quarter
and pig weed are both highly relished by
swine. 1t is best not to allow any weeds
to grow; yet they should De utilized as
much as possible in case they have made
growth.
a stock raiser reports that he destroys
lice on cattle by boiling potatoes until
they are thoroughly cooked, then remov-
ing the potatoes, allowing the water to
boil down to one-half the quantity to in'
crease it's strength. The water is then
used on the animals ss q wash. Two quarts
of potatoes boiled in three gallons OF water
are the proper proportions.
Thomas H. Payne, of Kansas City, Mo-,
writes as follows: For number of years
my business has been the selection and
purchase of stcekers and feeders at this
place, or in this market, for feeding pur-
poses. have purchased thousands yearly
and have no pecuniary interest either di-
rectly or indirectly, in any of the improved
breeds, as / have not a cent invested in
either of them; but in my experience
have found the Heretords from 10 to ID
per cent. lighter, and that not over 10 to 20
per cent. of them sold with the top or first
| pick of the cattle. OF course, | have refer
| ence to those herds where grade bulls have
been used for q number OF consecutive
| years.
That range cattle can be greatly improved
| in quality by the use of pure bred sires is
no new assertion, and is daily borne out by
| the testimony of the markets. The Kan
sas City Indicator cites an instance in point
Mr.. j. L. Heath, Peabody, Kas, recently
/ shipped to the Kansas City market ten
/ carloads OF steers, Fl We car loads each of 8
| Short-hoIu cross and Hereford cross on
| range cows crossed up from q Texas foun
| datlon. They were raised by the Prairie
Cattle Company and sold to Mr.. Heath
The five carloads of Shortho grades
averaged LOO pounds, and the five car
loads Of Hereford grades 600 pounds. In
the last six and one-half months the Short
horn grades gained 557 pounds and tbs
Hereford grades gained SIS pounds
Breeders Gazette.
The recent public sales OF Short-horns in
central Illinois show a decided falling of
in the average of prices as compared with
those of former years. There can be nc
| doubt but that the quarantine by othel
States against Illinois is the chief cause
this decline. The breeders throughout thl
entire State are made to suffer for the sin
or misfortune, whichever it may be, of
small district in one county on an extreme
border of the State. This is not only
commercial interests of the State. IL somi
better plan to remedy the evil is not sooI
devised we had better set Cook County
aside as State itself, and then let all thu
world quarantine against her so long a
she plays with pleuro-pneumonia or sui
fers il within her borders.-Phil. Thrifton